Article
Signals governing the trafficking and mistrafficking of a ciliary GPCR, rhodopsin.
The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience - 21 Aug 2013
Lodowski Kerrie H, Lee Richard, Ropelewski Philip, Nemet Ina, Tian Guilian, Imanishi Yoshikazu
Abstract excerpt
Rhodopsin is a cilia-specific GPCR essential for vision. Rhodopsin mislocalization is associated with blinding diseases called retinal ciliopathies. The mechanism by which rhodopsin mislocalizes in rod photoreceptor neurons is not well understood. Therefore, we investigated the roles of trafficking signals in rhodopsin mislocalization. Rhodopsin and its truncation mutants were fused to a photoconvertible...
Topics
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Animals
- Animals, Genetically Modified
- Anura
- Eye
- Female
- Gene Expression Regulation
- Luminescent Proteins
- Male
- Models, Molecular
- Mutation
